Joe,

>I have experienced many problems with configuring properties of the controls at designtime, compiling and running the form in debug and then returning to designtime only to have the properties reset.
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>An example is the mmUltraLabel control's Appearance - TextVAlign.
>At design-time I set this to "Bottom" and run the form and all looks great.
>After I return from runtime to designtime, the property is reset to "Default".
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>I also have not been able to use the Display Styles (e.g. Visual Studio 2005, Office 2003) that many of the controls like the UltraComboBox have available without having the same problem.
>In this case I also have noticed that when saving projects that have these Display Styles set, a bunch of "Object type cannot be converted to target type" messages are displayed. They almost always go away when compiling but are a nusiance.
>
>What is happening and how can I correct this problem short of coding the desired property values?

It looks like there may still be a few issues with the Infragistics controls presets and serializatioen--they fixed a number of problems in recent releases that addressed a number of these issues. Is it something you can reproduce consistently?

Regards,